Did a bot write this? Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised. This was very very silly but not without its charms. I do wish I had seen this on an IMAX screen. It's so dumb that it's main pleasures are watching Tom Cruise run (I'm being completely serious) and the big action setpieces with which the film is littered. This stuff really is good fun, and so one might as well lean into that by seeing this thing on the biggest screen possible.
There is, however, a paradox in PG-13 films like M:IDR1. They purportedly shield young people (under 13) from seeing too much violence. At the same time, their plots are about saving the entire world from succumbing to violent destruction. And yet they irresponsibly show the most brutal, horrible physical violence as if it has no consequences at all. You can get your face slammed into a stone wall and come right back to fight some more, and you can get your hand stabbed into a table and not bleed a drop. So while PG-13 films such as this (and the ones cranked out by Marvel Studios) purport to be opposed to violence, they make the world more and more violent by pretending that terrible violence does no harm.
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